New version 3.0.2 December 18th: This new version for Windows and Mac fixes the spinning forever issues that PowerPC Mac users were seeing as well as the issues with the disappearing Upload button. From now onward, automatic updates will be enabled through the Uploadr itself. Please visit flickr.com/tools/ for this upgrade.
Posted at 10:59AM, 13 December 2007 PST
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rcrowley (staff) edited this topic 108 months ago.

You guys are on fire today! First stats, now the Uploadr gets revamped. Sweet. Thanks =).
Incidentally, is the only way on the Mac to upload through the menubar? Or is there a dedicated "Upload" button that I can't find? I was looking for a little while for that.
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dan tsai edited this topic 109 months ago.

Dan Tsai: When you add some photos, an upload button should appear in the lower right-hand corner. If it doesn't, could you click Help and then Console and tell me what (if anything) shows up there? Thanks!
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Just installed on OS X 10.5. After signing in, the application shows two "Upload" menus in the menu bar. Clicking the second one causes the first to open. When I relaunch the app, the second menu is gone, but I can make it come back by clicking "Switch users" and then "cancel".

There is a slight bug, which I'm working to fix right now. If you add photos before signing in, the sign in button loses it's effect. Dan Tsai also reported an issue with the Upload button not appearing, which I'm investigating, too.
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Just tried it... I entered Upload -> Preferences and was asked to sign in (which I did). Now even being signed in (I can see my buddy icon and Flickr user name) and having a picture to upload, the Upload option (under the Upload menu) is disabled (greyed out).

Closing and reopening the uploader seemed to solve the problem, but I'd like you to let you know about it anyway...
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I have two photos in the uploader and I've selected them both. When I'm typing the description, after maybe 10-15 seconds all fields are cleared in the middle of my typing. If I select either one of the photos, what I typed is there, but if I select both of them, the fields are empty.
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It's not working for me. At first the upload menu item was greyed out. Then I closed/re-opened the uploader and the menu item was available but it doesn't work. No upload button appears on the main screen. I'm running OS X 10.4.11 on a macbook.
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Ok, I've found the specific circumstance where the upload button does not appear and the upload menu item does not work. When I drag and drop a photo from iPhoto to the Flickr icon on the OS X dock, the Flickr uploader opens and displays the photo thumbnail, but the upload button does not appear and I can't upload via the upload menu item. However, if I add a photo via the add button, then I can see the upload button and everything works as it should. If I drag and drop a photo directly onto an open instance of the Flickr uploader, then everything work too. The only time it doesn't work is when I drag and drop onto flickr icon on the dock. Hope that helps.
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Not able to uplaod again with new uploader, it always stalls at 98% or 99% or while "processing". It's quite frustrating.

[not frustrating anymore ;):D I just found out today the final version released :) I just installed and the bonk bug seems fixed with the final version it goes through instantly]
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Andreas. edited this topic 109 months ago.

Spokanekelly.....Same for Win XP.
However...closing Uploadr without removing the dragged in photos, then re-opening immediately, has the photo still in place and the Upload buttons available.
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Thanks for spokanekelly for getting to the root of the issue with the never-appearing Upload button. This one is a little trickier, but I'm on it. You're correct to point out that dragging into the app as well as using the Add button work just fine.
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George (staff) edited this topic 109 months ago.

rcrowley: another instance where the upload button doesn't appear is if i add a photo, then quit the program and reopen it. The photos are still there in the pane, but the upload button's gone.
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Wouldn't work for me on Mac running Tiger. Dragged 4 photos to it to upload and 15 minutes later it still hadn't created any thumbnails for them. Just sat and spun. Going back to earlier version.
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In my case, the beta uploadr was working much better than the most recent one. I downloaded this one, and tried to upload a photo both by dragging it to the uploadr and by using the add button. Instead I'm just getting the spinning dots. I tried removing the program including the preferences and reinstalling but I'm still having the same problem.

Downloaded the patched version. But still can't sign in, still getting the TimeOut as above. This might be a proxy thing (since I'm at work), but v2.5 used to work from here...
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and now I've realized something: if I try add photos taken with my nikon D40 I get that error , If I try photos taken with Canon A710is, sd400 or SE k790i everything goes ok!! Maybe an EXIF problem?
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new uploader not working on mac osx leopard either. no thumbnails when adding photos, wheel just spins, takes FOREVER for upload button to appear and for an actual upload of one picture.
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Those experiencing the "spinning forever" problem (at least Ron's Log, -Nicole-, sfaf, kwiat and gina 2.0) probably have something in common. To be safe, if you had installed the beta, try completely removing Uploadr and reinstalling. If the problem persists or you had not tried the beta, could you post some of the error messages from Help -> Console here, please? These would be most helpful.
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Tom and other beta testers: Two things are required to completely remove the beta from your Mac. First, go to your Applications folder and drag Flickr Uploadr to the trash. Then go to your home folder, go into Library, from there into Application Support and drag the Flickr Uploadr folder from there into the trash.

On the Windows side, uninstall Flickr Uploadr from your Add/Remove Programs (in the Control Panel). Then go to My Computer, click through to C: and then to Documents and Settings. From there double-click your username and then Application Data and delete the Flickr folder from there.

These steps should leave you with a blank slate to get back to installing Uploadr 3.0.
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found a bug. when you have a lot of photo is it and you try to remove them, they don't get deleted. you have to do it one at a time. i put like 40 photos into it yesterday just to play with it a little but never uploaded them. closed the application then opened it now to upload more. tried to select all and click remove but it didnt work. gotta do it one at a time.
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Downloaded and installed the 3.0 uploadr within the past hour. I initially attempted to sign in using the Upload -> Preferences -> Sign In option, and upon attempting to grant access to the uploadr, I would get the following error:

Oops! There's no api_key parameter.

An attempt to sign in via the button on the 'front page' of the uploadr seems to have sent the api_key string as part of the encoded URL string, and I was able to authorize without issue. Not sure if this is a bug or just a fluke, but I thought I'd report it anyway.
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no matter how I try to sign, it never asks me for my username and login. It says in the bottom left hand corner that it's signing in, then it just says You are working offline. I'm gong to try to uninstall and re-download, just wanted you to be aware of it.
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I've never fiddled with Mozilla's XUL things, but a brief read of the docs and some diffs lead me to believe that in the current version, something is amiss with the registration of the gm (GraphicksMagick, presumably) component when the app is started for the first time (or whenever there's nothing in Application Support):
compreg.dat, beta 2 has two flickr.com IDs:
@flickr.com/gm;1,{0e0d0b74-2c06-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}
@flickr.com/key;1,{30d5eeac-87fa-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}

compreg.dat, v3 has only one ID, for key:
@flickr.com/key;1,{30d5eeac-87fa-11dc-8314-0800200c9a66}

I'm having the same problem lots of people are having - when I drag a photo to the Uploadr window, the little circles appear and spin and spin and spin and spin... forever. I don't ever get thumbnails.

Funny thing is the same thing happens when I try to use Picnik here :-(

I went through and deleted the Flickr Uploadr file from my Application Support Folder, and deleted the application itself. I re-downloaded the file, and I'm still getting the spinning forever problem. Same errors as before:

Awesome, I had the old uploader (maybe even the one previous) ... and I was recently given a pro account as a early christmas gift. This brand spankin new uploader will finally allow me to upload all the pictures I have always wanted! :) YEAH!!!

I did have one small problem when I first started to upload. I had an error, saying I did not have my internet connected, when I did. It took me a few tries, then I realized it was not uploading the first image, so I just deleted that one and so far, it has been working just fine.
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The new tool uploads just fine, but it doesn't import the file name, i.e. the title of the photo, which I input in Photoshop CS2. This is a real drag. I'm going to use the old uploader until this gets fixed.
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One complaint. Dealing with Sets. One thing that was nice about the old uploader was that sets were in a drop down list and I could tab to set focus and then using first letter of the set easily find the set. Now I have to scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll and then click. Its slower interaction now. Also listing the sets alphabetically is ok I guess, but usually the sets I wanted to add things to were the most recent sets and now they are alphabetical.......
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When I add a picture on OS X 10.5.1 to the new Uploadr 3.0 I get the same spinning/processing error that many other users are reporting. The two Flickr dots keep going back and forth. I removed the Beta as per the instructions and downloaded the final copy - no dice.

I have the same issue as a number of others - can not connect to Flickr. Running XP or a corporate machine behind a corporate firewall...

I have 1 test photo in the uploader. Click 'sign in' and in the status line get 'Signing into Flickr'. Beside the 'my photos' line the icon blank appears, immediately disappears, and the status line reverts to "working offline'.

Hmm .. Ok. I tried it today. But I can't even sign in. Clicking the signin button has no effect at all. The app only states, that I am working "offline" .... any hint? Never got the beta installed. Using the latest 3.0 as available.. App-start takes about 20 seconds at all ..
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To add to the weirdness, the photos I dragged into uploader 3 did successfully upload despite thumbnails never being created in the uploader. I don't know when in the process the Upload button showed up, but there it was.

Then I attempted to upload another and the Upload button wouldn't show up. I give up for now.
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Richard: I have narrowed it down a little more; the problem is certainly the gm component. If I replace the current gm.dylib and flIGM.xpt with the versions from the beta, thumbnails work just great.

I would try to narrow it down a little further, but there's a header file missing from the source download (flIGM.h), that seems to define some necessary stuff, so I can't even start to build the GM bits. (That's why I had to go through the back door and just copy over the files from the previous version)

Does v3 allow me to edit/save meta data (tags, caption, etc.) within my local files, or does it just add meta data to the uploaded files? If it saves the meta data to my local files it'll be a winner in my book!

PLEASE help me. When I double click the shortcut nothing happens. The program does not open. Although it does exist in the task manager. I'm running XP SP2. Please help.
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